Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With jubilation and bloody revenge, Cuba's new government stepped off toward its uncharted, uncertain future. Rebel Fidel Castro came to Havana, the age-old smile of the conqueror on his face. He pushed through screaming Havana mobs to Camp Columbia, stronghold of ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista's army. The march of los barbudos, the bearded rebels who toppled Batista after two dogged years of guerrilla warfare, was complete...
Supposing such an alliance could be formed, there remains the question of whether the end is worth such unfortunate means. More important, it is uncertain whether such a display of moral unity would speed integration or merely create more regionalism in southern education...
...some kind of power struggle in Moscow, as evidenced by the dismissal of the hated police boss Ivan Serov (see below), and that an uncompromising Western stand on Berlin would strengthen the hand of Nikita's critics within the Politburo. The Kremlin has indeed been sounding an uncertain note of late, in its diplomatic huffing and puffing on Berlin. It threatens time limits, then withdraws them. It fills the air with windy ultimatums. Last week the Russians said again that unless the Western powers showed themselves ready to discuss the status of Berlin "in a businesslike manner," the U.S.S.R...
...committed to no creed, and more uncertain than I should be of certain ultimate beliefs, the God of Job seems closer to this generation than he has to any other in centuries." So says Poet Archibald MacLeish, 66, author of Broadway's latest hit (see THEATER). J.B. is an analogy between the Bible's searching sufferer and modern man. In the New York Times, MacLeish explains the necessities of heart and mind that led him to write the play; he also gives a moving view of his generation's despair-and hope...
...PLACE WITHOUT TWILIGHT, by Peter S. Feibleman. Another first novel and one that makes a daring foray into uncertain ground. White Author Feibleman deals with a New Orleans Negro family that is more oppressed by black ignorance than by white prejudice. His success is startling, though not total...